Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (16 results returned)
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $200: It's the only chess piece that can hop over an opposing piece when it moves a knight |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $400: In 2016 Timur Gareyev played a record 48 simultaneous games wearing one of these; he won 35, lost 6 & drew 7 a blindfold |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $600: The Ruy Lopez is also known as the Spanish Opening; the Giuoco Piano, as this one (not to be confused with the Sicilian Defense) the Italian Opening |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $800: In an anticlimax, a 1978 World Championship game was this kind of draw on the 124th move a stalemate |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CHESS FOR CHAMPS $1000: In 1997 the chess world was shocked when world champ Garry Kasparov lost a match to this IBM computer program Deep Blue |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $200: World champion Viswanathan Anand was born in this country India |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $400: World champ Mikhail Botvininnik practiced concentration by having this blown in his face cigarette smoke |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $600: In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to be awarded this title grandmaster |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $800: He resigned for good in 2008 in Iceland, where he'd beaten Boris Spassky in 1972 (Bobby) Fischer |
| #7166, aired 2015-11-09 | CHESS CHAMPS $1000: World champ from 1985 to 2000, this Russian modestly titled his series of books on other champs "My Great Predecessors" (Garry) Kasparov |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $400: Even with two extra pawns, white can't force a win here, because these pieces can travel only on opposite-colored squares the bishops |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $800: Literally "in passing", it's the 2-word term for how a pawn can capture another pawn that's moved past it en passant |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White should have an easy win here, but he blows it by moving his queen to the D6 square, leading to this drawn outcome a stalemate |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1600: Initiated by the moves E4 E6, this defense got its name from its use by a Paris team in an 1834 match with London the French defense |
| #5651, aired 2009-03-16 | LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White can't move his knight, because doing so would expose his king; the knight's said to be stuck to the king with this tactic, named for a pointy little object pinned |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | WE'RE WORLD CHAMPS $400: Alexander Khalifman, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov chess |
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